Does Agile work? - A quantitative analysis of agile project success
Does Agile work? - A quantitative analysis of agile project success
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ijproman.2015.01.006
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发表时间：
2015-07-01
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8
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Pinto, Jeffrey K.
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作者：
Serrador, Pedro;Pinto, Jeffrey K.
近年来，敏捷项目管理方法论已被广泛用作应对传统的前端计划方法的危险，这些方法通常会导致下游发展病理。尽管许多作者都指出了敏捷的优势，但它强调了个人和互动，而不是流程，客户协作而不是合同和正式谈判以及对严格规划的响应能力，但迄今为止，很少有大规模的，经验研究对支持敏捷方法可以提高项目成功的可能性的论点。它最初是为软件开发而开发的，它仍然主要是IT现象。但是由于其成功，它现在已经扩散到非IT项目。使用多个行业和国家 /地区的1002个项目的数据样本，我们测试了组织对项目成功的两个维度的敏捷使用的影响：效率和对组织目标的总体利益相关者满意度。我们进一步研究了变量的调节效果，例如项目的愿景/目标，项目复杂性和项目团队经验的质量。我们的发现表明，敏捷方法确实对项目成功的两个维度都有积极影响。此外，愿景/目标的质量是这种效果的重要主持人。讨论了这些发现和方向对未来研究的含义。 （c）2015 Elsevier Ltd. APM和IPMA。版权所有。
The Agile project management methodology has been widely used in recent years as a means to counter the dangers of traditional, front-end planning methods that often lead to downstream development pathologies. Although numerous authors have pointed to the advantages of Agile, with its emphasis on individuals and interactions over processes, customer collaboration over contracts and formal negotiations, and responsiveness over rigid planning, there are, to date, very few large-scale, empirical studies to support the contention that Agile methods can improve the likelihood of project success. Developed originally for software development, it is still predominantly an IT phenomenon. But due to its success it has now spread to non-IT projects. Using a data sample of 1002 projects across multiple industries and countries, we tested the effect of Agile use in organizations on two dimensions of project success: efficiency and overall stakeholder satisfaction against organizational goals. We further examined the moderating effects of variables such as perceived quality of the vision/goals of the project, project complexity, and project team experience. Our findings suggest that Agile methods do have a positive impact on both dimensions of project success. Further, the quality of the vision/goals is a marginally significant moderator of this effect. Implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. APM and IPMA. All rights reserved.